The Rolling Stones Release Deluxe ‘A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach’ Set

Released today (July 9th) is the Rolling Stones' new multimedia set, The Rolling Stones — A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach. The double-DVD, two-CD collection was captured in Brazil on February 8th, 2006 at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach in front of a reported 1.5 million people — both on land and at sea.

The set, which is an expanded version of the 2007 release, is packaged in a 12-by-12, 40-page book, along with an exclusive bonus DVD including a November 2005 concert in Salt Lake City — also from the band's tour behind A Bigger Bang.

The package has also been issued as a triple-LP — pressed on blue, yellow, and green vinyl, along with a clear vinyl version.

Keith Richards said in the press release for Live On Copacabana Beach: “Not that we're unused to playing some of the biggest shows in the world, but I must say Rio did take the cake.”

Mick Jagger added: “It was amazing. It was a really good audience. They know how to enjoy themselves on those occasions.”

Mick Jagger told us that in terms of the band's nightly setlist — just because a song might've cooked during rehearsals, it hardly means that it'll be a hit when introduced onstage: “The thing about when you do running orders, is that it's completely hypothetical. You don't know if this song is going to work — and you soon do. And you go out and you do it. And if it doesn't work. . . you don't know about songs.”

Keith Richards was asked if after all these years he gets nervous just before jumping on stage — especially playing venues like the massive football stadiums the Stones usually play: “No — but there is. . . it depends what you mean by nerves. I mean, some people (get) nerves, or butterflies — no, that don't come into it. But there is at the same time a sense of excitement. You really, gotta, like, fly. Y'know, that's what you try and do, y'know; and I got some fliers in this band.”

Over 45 years since first hitting the road with the Rolling Stones, Ron Wood says that he and Keith Richards still possess a sixth sense about how to intertwine their guitar work onstage: “That was something that Keith and I have always luckily had from the start. We never planned, as such, what we are gonna do individually. We have a knack of if one goes this way, the other one will slide in this way. On a certain number, we don't even look at each other. If I wanna take the solo, I'll take it, right? And if he wants to take it, he'll take it.”

The tracklist to 'A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach' is:

Rio
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
“It’s Only Rock N' Roll (But I Like It)”
“You Got Me Rocking”
“Tumbling Dice”
“Oh No, Not You Again”
“Wild Horses”
“Rain Fall Down”
“Midnight Rambler”
“Night Time Is The Right Time”
“This Place Is Empty”
“Happy”
“Miss You”
“Rough Justice”
“Get Off My Cloud”
“Honky Tonk Women”
“Sympathy For The Devil”
“Start Me Up”
“Brown Sugar”
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Salt Lake City (Bonus show – deluxe versions only)
“Start Me Up”
“You Got Me Rocking”
“She’s So Cold”
“Tumbling Dice”
“Rain Fall Down”
“It’s Only Rock N' Roll (But I Like It)”
“Wild Horses”
“All Down The Line”
“Night Time Is The Right Time”
“Slipping Away”
“Infamy”
“Miss You”
“Rough Justice”
“Get Off Of My Cloud”
“Honky Tonk Women”
“Sympathy For The Devil”
“Brown Sugar”
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”